DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2421061831
(Radiology 2007;242:3-5.)
© RSNA, 2007
Radiology 2007: The Year Ahead
Anthony V. Proto, MD Editor
Now in my 10th year as Editor of Radiology and approaching the completion of my tenure in that position as of December 2007 (1,2), I am pleased to provide our readers with information on the year ahead. It is difficult to imagine that so many years have passed, for it seems like only yesterday that the Board of Directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) entrusted me with the responsibility and honor of functioning as the Editor of Radiology. The support from the RSNA board has been exceptional, not only with respect to substantial funding for changes and improvements in the Journal but also with respect to never interfering with and never once pressuring me in any way whatsoever to make or change a decision regarding what to publish in Radiology. I have truly enjoyed editorial freedom, and I deeply respect and thank the board for extending that freedom to me. Special thanks are due to the RSNA board Liaison for Publications and Communications, Hedvig Hricak, MD, PhD. I could not ask for a more enthusiastic, insightful, and supportive liaison with whom to interact on issues relating to Radiology.
Now, the year ahead:
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THIS MONTH IN RADIOLOGY
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Over the years, we have introduced features aimed at helping our busy readers manage the extensive content in each issue of Radiology—the abbreviated table of contents on the cover, the summary statement in the full table of contents, reasons for selection of an abstract to include in the Abstracts of Current Literature, Essentials for the monthly featured Review or State of the Art article, Science to Practice (3,4), more content in the abstract of a given article, Advances in Knowledge (2), and Implications for Patient Care (see below). The next new feature, This Month in Radiology, will appear in the "A" pages at the front of the Journal and in the same location each month. It is limited to two pages and offers a one paragraph summary for each of 10 articles selected by the Editor, articles that appear in the same issue of the Journal. We hope our readers will be pleased with these brief summaries, and we welcome your feedback.
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IMPLICATIONS FOR PATIENT CARE
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Just as Advances in Knowledge appears in a standard location for the original research articles we publish, so will Implications for Patient Care. With the revised Publication Information for Authors guidelines appearing in the September 2006 issue of Radiology, we began requesting that authors submit up to three complete sentences that describe in what manner the study results might apply to patient care. This new feature will begin its appearance over the next several months, as we publish manuscripts for which this information has been provided. Reviewers now have an opportunity to critique these implications, which are part of the manuscript and are made available to the reviewer, just as are the Advances in Knowledge. We hope our readers will find Implications for Patient Care valuable and, again, we welcome your feedback.
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THE "NEW GRAY"
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The redesign and reorganization of the contents of Radiology first appeared in the January 2006 issue (2). We are exceptionally pleased with the unsolicited positive feedback our readers have provided regarding the more inviting display of content and greater ease of navigation through the pages of Radiology. We are equally pleased that a number of readers shared their concerns regarding some of the changes in the "New Gray" and offered suggestions for improvement, suggestions that have allowed us to fine tune the Journal. Please feel free to share with us any comments you have about how we can further improve the redesign of Radiology.
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SPECIAL SERIES
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With the January 2007 issue of Radiology, we begin publication of the first of two special series of current importance to our readers—"Evidence-based Radiology Series" and "Molecular Imaging Series." The second of these will begin publication later this year. I am deeply indebted to the Radiology associate editors who have carefully planned the content of and selected the authors for each series. The associate editors were first appointed in 2004 when we introduced Evidence-based Practice and Molecular Imaging as new sections on the Radiology masthead (3).
The Evidence-based Radiology Series first began under the direction of Harald O. Stolberg, MD, and Dermot E. Malone, MD. Progress continued but experienced an abrupt delay with the untimely death of Dr Stolberg (5). Much to our good fortune, Dr Malone agreed to assume full responsibility for continuing the series. Please read his introduction to the series in this issue of Radiology (6) and join me in thanking him for his exceptional effort and guidance over the past many months.
The Molecular Imaging Series began and continues under the direction of John M. Hoffman, MD, and Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD. At the time of this writing, we are receiving revised versions of the manuscripts for the series. Once all are finalized, we will begin publishing one per month later in 2007. Please join me in thanking Drs Hoffman and Gambhir for their outstanding effort and guidance over the past many months to allow this series to come to fruition.
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NEW SECTION: CONTROVERSIES
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Over the past many years we have introduced a number of new features, all described in my From the Editor communications for our readers. Another new feature that will appear later this year is "Controversies." This feature was spawned from a Special Focus Session held at the 2005 RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting. The moderator of the session, Robert M. Quencer, MD, was kind enough to work with the authors of the two manuscripts that resulted from that session; each manuscript offers an opposing view on a controversial topic—magnetic resonance angiography or computed tomographic angiography for neurovascular diseases. With Dr Quencer's input we have developed a template that can be followed for other controversial topics in different organ system areas. We thank Dr Quencer for his help and guidance. Watch for this new feature later this year, and feel free to provide us with your suggestions for additional Controversies topics.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Molecular imaging will undoubtedly become an integral part of patient imaging over the next several years. Our recognition of the same prompted us to include Molecular Imaging as a new section on the Radiology masthead in 2004 (5). The Molecular Imaging Series to begin publication later this year (see above) further demonstrates our belief in the importance of this new direction for patient care through imaging. We are exceptionally pleased that many authors send us their molecular imaging–related research manuscripts. Moreover, we strongly encourage all authors to do so, whether the research relates to animal experimentation or is clinically oriented, as we wish to inform our readers of the important progress being made in this area.
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DIAGNOSIS PLEASE CATEGORY 1 CME CREDIT
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Diagnosis Please was introduced as a new feature in Radiology in April 1998 (7). Since then it has become exceptionally popular. On a monthly basis, we receive hundreds of most likely diagnoses submitted by our readers for the ongoing cases. In 2005 (8) we allowed resident groups to submit collective responses, and in 2006 (9) we announced the North American and international resident group winners along with the individual reader who submitted the highest number of correct responses. Now we hope to offer continuing medical education category 1 credit related to Diagnosis Please. Please watch later this year for more information to appear in the publication of an answer to a given case or on the Diagnosis Please Web site (http://rsna.org/dxplease) now in use for submission of the most likely diagnosis.
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REVISED EDITORIALS
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In 1999 and 2000, I published two editorials (10,11) intended for authors and reviewers, respectively—"Radiology 1999: Evaluating and Processing Your Manuscript for Publication" and "Radiology 2000: Reviewing for Radiology." Since then, our procedures in the Richmond, Va, editorial office have changed substantially, especially with implementation of our Web-based manuscript submission and peer review system (12). To update our authors and reviewers on these changes, I will publish revised versions of these editorials later this year. Please watch for them.
In closing, I hope you will find the year ahead to be another interesting one, whether you are an author, reviewer, or reader of Radiology—or all three. We are most enthusiastic about the plans for the year ahead and, as always, welcome your critique.
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- McLoud TC. Search for a new editor. Radiology 2006;238(1):11–12.[Free Full Text]
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- Proto AV. Radiology 2004: new directions. Radiology 2004;230(1):3–5.[Free Full Text]
- Kruskal JB. Science to practice: blood flow quantification with contrast-enhanced US—"entrance in the section" phenomenon: phantom and rabbit study. Radiology 2003;228(1):298–299.[Free Full Text]
- Doris CI. Harald O. Stolberg, MD. Radiology 2005;237(2):751–752.[Free Full Text]
- Malone DE. Evidence-based practice in radiology: an introduction to the series. Radiology 2007;242(1):12–14.[Free Full Text]
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